Horrific images were
taken this week of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria. Rows of
bodies, including many children, fill rooms and streets in the eastern
suburbs of Damascus, and Syrian activists are reporting hundreds of
people killed. The Syrian government denies the use of chemical weapons,
and an investigation continues. The civil war persists as forces
continued fighting and droves fled the country. (WARNING: Images are
graphic)( 25 photos total)

A
man holds the body of a dead child among bodies of people activists say
were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in the Duma
neighbourhood of Damascus August 21, 2013. (Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)

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This
image provided by Shaam News Network on Aug. 22, which has been
authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to
show dead bodies after an attack on Ghouta, Syria on Aug. 21.
(Uncredited/Shaam News Network, via Associated Press) #

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A
man reacts as he holds the body of a girl whom activists say was killed
by gas attack in al-Ghouta area, in the eastern suburbs of Damascus,
August 21.(Diaa al-Din/Shaam News Network/Handout via Reuters) #

4

Bodies
of people activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region
are seen in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus August 21. Syrian
activists said at least 213 people, including women and children, were
killed on Wednesday in a nerve gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad's
forces on rebel-held districts of the Ghouta region east of
Damascus.(Bassam Khabieh/Reuters) #

5

A
man inspects a site hit by what activists said were missiles fired by
Syrian Air Force fighter jets loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, in
Raqqa province, eastern Syria, August 21. (Nour Fourat) #

6

A dead dog is seen at a site hit by what activists said was a gas
attack in the Damascus suburb of Ain Tarma, August 21. (Bassam
Khabieh/Reuters) #

7

Relatives and activists inspect the bodies of people they say were
killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in the Duma neighbourhood of
Damascus August 21.(Shaam News Network via Reuters ) #

8

A
man reacts at a site hit by what activists said was an air raid by
forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in the Duma
neighbourhood of Damascus, August 22.(Bassam Khabieh/Reuters) #

9

Syrian
men lying on the ground as they wait for treatment after Syrian rebels
claim they were poisoned in a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces
in Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21.(Media Office of
Douma via AFP/Getty Images) #

10

Civilians
carrying their purchases run to avoid snipers loyal to Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad at the Karaj al-Hajez crossing, a passageway
separating Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr, which is under the rebels' control
and Al-Masharqa neighborhood, an area controlled by the regime, August
21.(Muzaffar Salman/Reuters) #

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A
woman mourns over a body wrapped in shrouds laid out in a line on the
ground with other victims which Syrian rebels claim were killed in a
toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta, on the
outskirts of Damascus on August 21. (Daya Al-Deen/AFP/ Getty Images) #

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Syrians
carrying the body of a child into a mass grave following what Syrian
rebels claim to be a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in
eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21. (Ammar
Al-Arbini/AFP/Getty Images) #

13

Bodies
of children whom activists say were killed by gas attack in the Ghouta
area, lay on floor in the eastern suburbs of Damascus August 21.(Mohamed
Abdullah/Reuters) #

14

A
man carries a boy as he runs with other civilians to take cover after
what activists said was a missile strike by Syrian Air Force fighter
jets loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, in Raqqa province, eastern
Syria August 21. (Nour Fourat /Reuters) #

15

Several
bodies are buried in a suburb of Damascus, Syria during a funeral on
Aug. 21. Syrian government forces pressed their offensive in eastern
Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition
said the regime had killed more than 100 people the day before in a
chemical weapons attack.(Shaam News Network via Associated Press) #

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A
Free Syrian Army fighter is seen through a hole in the wall in Salah
al-Din neighbourhood in central Aleppo, August 22.(Muzaffar
Salman/Reuters) #

17

A
Syrian soldier is captured by Free Syrian Army fighters during what the
FSA say is an offensive against forces loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad, in Qobtan village in Aleppo August 22.(Saad
AboBrahim/Reuters) #

18

A
15-year-old Free Syrian Army fighter takes position in a house in Salah
al-Din neighbourhood in central Aleppo, August 22. (Muzaffar
Salman/Reuters) #

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Bodies of victims of an attack on Ghouta, Syria on the floor on Aug. 21. (Shaam News Network via Associated Press) #

20

Girls
who survived from what activists say is a gas attack rest inside a
mosque in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus, August 21.(Mohamed
Abdullah/Reuters) #

21

A
survivor from what activists say is a gas attack vomits inside a mosque
in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus August 21. (Bassam
Khabieh/Reuters) #

22

A
boy, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, is treated at a
medical center in the Damascus suburbs of Saqba, August 21. Syria's
opposition accused government forces of gassing hundreds of people on
Wednesday by firing rockets that released deadly fumes over rebel-held
Damascus suburbs, killing men, women and children as they slept.(Bassam
Khabieh/Reuters) #

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A
boy who survived the attack cries as he takes shelter inside a mosque
in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus August 21.(Mohamed
Abdullah/Reuters) #

Syrian
refugees, fleeing the violence in their country, wait to cross the
border into the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, August 21.
The government of Iraqi Kurdistan has set an entry quota of 3,000
refugees a day to cope with an influx of Kurds fleeing the civil war in
Syria.(Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)

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